@Ishan Puri  Get pre-approved with a lender first.....I'm in the Bay Area but I used Shawn Huss at Chemical Bank to get pre-approved for what I bought in Cleveland.....you can google him . ou can also look up @chrismason    He's here in the Bay Area ....Generally speaking, nobody will take you serious until they know you are pre-approved. 

Prefinished flooring offers advantages over onsite finished flooring, such as the ability to walk on the floors soon after installation and the absence of sanding and harsh chemicals in the home.

My fellow BPers can come across as harsh, opinionated and rigid in their ways but don't dismiss the knowledge base here. 

Another reason I don’t do balloons in loans  As harsh as it is, this is the best advice.

I don't mean to be harsh when I say this, but delinquent taxes more times than not, have baggage where they have not handled other responsibilities.

Tenants can be very harsh on hardwood and laminate....moving furniture, pets claws and spills are generally not handled as well as they are with homeowners.

Of course this isn't true for people with actual chemical unbalances, schizophrenics, and sociopaths.Now, I'm all for capitalism, Milton Friedman is my favorite economist, but here is the main difference between capitalism and socialism and even better, anarchism.Capitalists believe that people are motivated by greed, profit, money.

My lessons were that rising property taxes can heavily impact profits (not an issue in CA), Mother Nature can be harsh, getting contractors from a far to actually perform especially in a time after a disaster can be very challenging.Good luck

I do believe in a diversified portfolio so I do not want to be too harsh on the financial advisor.  

Expand this to all other negatives like main streets, near railroad tracks, near commercial units, under airport flight paths, no garages (this may not be the case in all areas), no yards, poor layouts that can not be laid out differently, too many steps leading to the fr t door ( I just learned this harsh lesson a year and a half ago), etc. . . . .As far as the foundation issue, that was actually a good thing.